‘Performing Stragismo and Counter-spectacularisation: Italian right-wing Terrorism and Its Legacies’ is a SGSAH-AHRC-funded practice-based PhD project that explores the collective memory of Italian right-wing political violence (1969-1980) and its inter-generational transmission through online interviews with Italian women who were young adults at the time.
In the Seventies, Italy suffered a large number of terrorist attacks; due to the judicially-ascertained collisions with the secret services and with political personalities, the right-wing bombing attacks were and are known as ‘stragi di stato’ [state massacres] by a large slice of the population. However, Italian collective memory is still ‘divided’ (Foot 2009). Drawing from interdisciplinary research between Italian studies and Theatre and Performance studies, I explore the models through which collective memory is elaborated, and the media and cultural products that helped the participants make sense of that period of time.
Encompassing under-represented narratives, the project interrogates the process of knowledge-making; at the same time, it asks how practice can ethically address memory gaps.
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